Ibn Al-Haytham
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 8261 years ago |
Born | Basrah |
Iraq | |
Date of died | March 6,1040 |
Died | Cairo |
Egypt | |
Full name | Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham |
Nationality | Abbasid |
Iranian | |
Residence | Basrah |
Iraq | |
Cairo | |
Egypt | |
Job | Physician |
Engineer | |
Mathematician | |
Physicist | |
Writer | |
Astronomer | |
Philosopher | |
Field | Physics, mathematics, astronomy |
Books | Basrah, Iraq |
Book of Optics | |
De aspectibus | |
Shukūk ʻalá Baṭlamyūs | |
On the Light of the Moon | |
Influencees | Johannes Kepler |
René Descartes | |
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi | |
Influence | Euclid |
Thābit ibn Qurra | |
Ibn Sahl | |
Date of birth | January 1,5663 |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1680116 |
Ibn Al-Haytham Life story
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq. Referred to as "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular.